I Just clocked 2000 Km in 3 days on my Paj. I am based in Gaborone Botswana. Last week Friday there was a need for me to make an emergency trip to Livingstone in Zambia. I did the usual pre-journey checks. (Oil, coolant, tire pressure, etc) and I hit the road. Started off from Gaborone friday night. was in livingstone by saturday Midday, spent saturday night. there and started of from Livingstone yesterday (sunday) and i am now back in Gaborone Botswana.
2000KM + and pushing . All i had to do for my Paj was to make sure she is fueled.
She is just marvelous.

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I have a 2002 GLS LWB with about 340 000km. I fitted a auto dimmer rear view mirror and redid the upper and lower control arm bushes on the front suspension. I am able to make the bushes out of polyurethane and played around with different shore hardness. I settled for a 90A hardness, but, I think I should have used an 80A hardness. I also redid the anti sway/roll bar bushes, front and rear and the polyurethane seems to be better than the original rubber. These bushes should definitely be a 90A hardness.
I have just done over 2000km in various National parks over severe corrugation, and I am very happy with the results.

I still want to do the trailing arm bushes. I will also be casting the shock bushes out of polyurethane. See the picture below for the bushes before I installed them.

Went to Mitsitech in Alberton to remove cat and blank off EGR. (they also installed some stuff for me at about 1/4 the cost of what the dealers wanted to charge... e.g. steering rack boots)

So a few observations:
> What a pleasent experience at Mitsitech. Given I've been looking for a trusty mechanic after a few less than inspiring experiences with our man in Centurion... I found Arnold at Mitsitech a breath of fresh air! Would be keen to hear other's experience of him, as I'm considering using him going forward for any of major work.

> Arnold also did a Dyno run before and after removing the cat (result below). He said the cat was severely clogged when he opened it up. When I saw the picture I thought... yeah right... but I must say, the difference, especially under 2500 rpm is MASSIVE... Basically almost double power at 1500 rpm. revving is now much more free (revs build faster).

> Overall about 12% increase at peak power - very much noticable!

Will be keen to see what impact it has on fuel (if any), and I will be monitoring my EGTs now with interest to see if they come down.

On the one hand I am very miffed because I've babied my paj over the last 120k kms... Just hope that I've been driving it slowly enough for the increased back-pressure and resultant increased heat not to have had significant impacts.